Here's an example.
Route. Australians generally pronounce this as 'root' (which is also a colloquialism for sex ... "Did you get a root last night?")

Now 'rooter' (router) and 'rooter rack' sound stupid. In computing you pronounce it 'rau-t' but whenever I see or use this word outside of the computer world I still pronounce it 'rau-t' which makes people look at me funny _________________"The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." -- Alan Kay

I'll stick with A-S-C-I-I, G-U-I, and tilde for my pronunciations. You really can't go wrong with saying the letters. It IS an acronym afterall therefore making the letters more technically correct.

In fact, exactly wrong - the complete reverse is true. Acronyms are supposed to be pronounced as words. Initialisms, on the other hand, are pronounced as discrete letters. And ASCII and GUI, by origin and convention, are acronyms - not initialisms.

You are free to choose your own way of pronuouncing them, but doing so will mark you as a newbie for most people (people who pronounce acronyms as initialisms are usually those who have only read about a topic, rather than used it professionally or in a situation where they would discuss it with someone knowledgeable).

Well that would certainly explain it, since i don't know the first thing about music and that thought never occured to me.

If Microsoft chose that symbol for precisely that reason, kudos to them - although i would call c# many other names, most of them not as nice and pleasant. _________________THE reason "emerge -UD world" is broken:
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Religion is a crutch, but that's okay... humanity is a cripple.

how do you say 'chmod'?
i sometimes catch myself when speaking to linux people in real life(which is very rare) that i don't really know how to say the commands that seem natural to me when i'm writing them. 'chmod' is one of them, i'd say 'tche-mod', with chgrp or chown i'd simply speak them out, like 'change-group' or 'change-owner'.

linux = lhee-nooks. I know I'm english but there's a bit of Swedish in me and I think it's a crime for people to say anything but the english or swedish version that Linus uses (they're still at linux.org).

Actually it's not a Swedish version. It's a Finnish version.

"Hello! My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux."

It's that simple really. Every letter in the word is pronounced precisely as they read. No need for funny spelling attemptions._________________Jouni Hätinen